cyprus aspersions on the e.u. bailout deal though would have cut into ordinary depositors' savings forcing the government to look to moscow for a lifeline against bankruptcy. brugge obama arrives in israel for the first time as u.s. president but to may struggle to close the growing gap between the country's middle east policies. u.s. military officials admit the one time a hunger strike has almost doubled of the detainees are being force fed while human rights groups demand more openness from the detention camp. and iraqi terrorist group with links to al qaida claims responsibility for bombings that killed dozens in baghdad for the unsettling the country ten years on from the u.s. led invasion. international

news analysis and reports of this is r.t. scenes of relief and celebration greeted this line prison palomas rejection of attacks on bank deposits the one off levy linked to when the e.u. bailout deal would have seen millions of account holders lose up to attend all the savings and have been condemned by officials and the public alike but the country now finds itself on the brink of bankruptcy and having rejected the e.u. is terms it may have to turn to russia for cisterns you've got peace going to fix up the story. sampras is in a very difficult position right now since it's just rejected the bailout plan by brussels and the troika off to investors to tax private bank accounts in cyprus and frankly there aren't that many places to turn to right now for assistance to the

cypriot finance minister is in moscow he's met with his russian counterpart and he's said that he's satisfied with the goal seasons but at the same time added that you know official offer has been made so far although there is speculation that cyprus is going to ask russia for a loan but we do know that the country already holds moscow two and a half billion year old this is for another loan which was given to the currency back in two thousand and eleven back then it exceeded ten percent of its g.d.p. and to help its economy stay afloat with the big question now is is cyprus going for broke is it going to ask russia for a complete bailout package but the big picture is angle and merkel is completely furious with cyprus even talking to moscow about this even though it's widely acknowledged that up to thirty percent of deposits on the site side had bank accounts belong to russian businesses. banks or outside prince remains shut to prevent panicking investors rushing to withdraw their savings i correspondent as

a failure reports from the capital on the situation facing people the. as far as what goes on the street at the moment it's rather calm the initial panic really happened over the weekend when that announcement was made from brussels that they will be tax of people were lining up. in front of a.t.m.'s trying to get their money out and yesterday i was talking to some locals who were trying to get some money out of the a.t.m. some had run out of cash and this morning when i actually tried to buy a bottle of water they had given me a handful of change and apologizing that they had run out of five euros and ten euro notes because the banks were closed the u.k. government as we know had already sent about one million euros in cash to their troops who were here in cyprus just to keep the cash go away now on the on the bigger level in the canonical level if the banks do remain closed this will pose a problem as the economy does hit a substantially on the banking sector and there's already been doubt on whether the my school opened at all that we also heard from reaction from the e.u.

or the dutch fineness minister said well the bloc deeply regretted the boat but the bailout offer still sounds provided that the initial requirement is still met all this leave that is not that has not passed the parliament and they're really not happy about that will the impact of what is happening in cyprus certainly send it ripples across europe first of all to the citizens who are now quite afraid of their say because of the fact that the seeds of doubt the soul of the credibility has been damaged that the damage has been done even if the poll did not go through so people are saying if it can happen to cyprus that that red line to be crossed dipping into people's savings it could happen to other euro zone countries that might be leading bailouts in the future. now the man who engineered a bridges austerity program is now looking to rebrand to insult the u.k. the chancellor of the executors feels a new budget expected to scrap a number of highly controversial tax hikes are pushing ahead with of the government's austerity drive i believe that these are live pictures coming out of

westminster way george osborne is talking about a better budget. barack obama has arrived in israel on his first ever visit to the country as you as president and home obama has been repeatedly criticized by a pro is lady lord we lobby is for distancing himself from tel aviv and there's a little chance of the eyes of four we be tween the two governments any time soon policy or reports. when former american president george bush visited israel for his trip with clear skies pope benedict the sixteenth was cloaked white now it's a bar mr. we've called to visit then shakable alliance it is a sign of the extraordinary relations between israel and the united states. so extraordinary that the prime minister's office invited the public to choose one of these designs as the trips official emblem but relations between the two leaders

are strained and many believe the positive p.r. is nothing more than cave a spin there are policy differences. on the palestinian issue on the boards the rise of islamist forces in. egypt where do you see from jerusalem nearby not what you have seen from washington. at the distance. from the palestinian street for that matter obama obama came just to beautify the ugly face that bush left the american government works the same whether the president is a bomber or bush the only difference is that one president smiles while the other does not. this is likely to be the scene for the next three days while a bomb is in town anger frustration and raised in the streets of palestine also full of posters protesting the president's visit to many of them his face has been blacked out. critics warn that if obama doesn't confront you know who i'm

settlements and sixty seven borders the visit could disintegrate into another diplomatic failure and some say we knew all of violence in the middle east we don't see ourselves leaving our communities we have returned to places where we have the jewish people have always wished to live there and we live that with the encouragement of the support of the israeli government. when it comes to around here to a bomb and netanyahu are at loggerheads a bomber is against an israeli military strike despite relations between the u.s. and iran being themselves quite strained franking iran. in spite of american explicit objections would certainly. hamper israel's relations with the united states might. even break them all together so for all its hype a bomb is visit for many is less of a compliment and more of an attempt by washington to reaffirm its military alliance

in pursuit of its economic interests the interests of the united state its not its in the resources of the middle east and not in its people and to ever think that it is the united states have changed that is it will prove differently prove that comes at a price literally the three day trip cost millions of dollars on high price for a visit with so little promise force they are seen however. we've got more on the backstory to america's relations with israel and palestine r.t. dot com we'll also find reaction to president obama's offis it now as officials have admitted that the number of guantanamo bay detainees on hunger strike has almost doubled to since last week they've also said that at least eight in meds are being force fed while dismissing lawyers claims of prisoner abuse made all the un human rights body has sent r g eight cautions

a statement on the hunger strike going up what has more on that. received a long statement from the office of the un's high commissioner for human rights navi pillay now directly related to the guantanamo hunger strike that statement said that quote while aware of some of the allegations of mistreatment of inmates said to have provoked the hunger strike which includes undue interference with inmates personal effects we are still trying to confirm the details of the statement went on to say that the human rights commissioner has repeatedly regretted that the u.s. government has not closed get mo and has she's also expressed concern over the obstacles the national defense authorization act has created for losing the island prison and for trying prisoners that are there even the united nations has not been able to have enough access at guantanamo to see in depth what is taking place with this hunger strike that prisoners at guantanamo bay one on hunger strike on

february sixth in protest of the alleged confiscation of their personal items and religious handling of their qur'an at that time the u.s. military was saying that only a handful of prisoners were on hunger strike but we do know that medical experts have told us and so have attorneys that once this hunger strike enters its forty fifty day hunger strike participants risk losing their eyesight and losing their hearing there's been reports according to attorneys of hunger strike participants losing up to thirty pounds if not more coughing up blood losing consciousness being hospitalized so the attorneys for these state detainees are sounding the alarm as they've even the center for constitutional rights even sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel say help us end this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal. from human rights watch of things that the obama administration has

lost its credibility as a guardian of international. they're going to have to respond at some point and they need to either you know try and prosecute the detainees who they actually have credible evidence against or release them at this point only because you can either actually face any formal charges half of the people there the administration has said they have no interest in prosecuting they need q. you know act on this they cannot continue could contain people indefinitely without trial for years bombing administration that u.s. government is clearly in violation of international law and its obligations under international law and journalists don't have access even the un special rapporteur tour does not have access we don't have access to it greatly limits our ability to speak with them and to understand what's happening especially regarding their detention conditions and it only undermines the united states his credibility when

they're calling for him here and he were knights norms in other countries. well we've gone bad why the british the training to they all while it's as a about to find out how the chancellor is going to raise much needed cash stay with us. well. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future are covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for way you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard luck is a big. thank

you. welcome back it's good that you stay with us here on our team now back to all top story cyprus has a rejected any e.u. mandated tax on bank deposits there was a condition for a potential european bailout but was cyprus not walking out the bankruptcy tightrope let's discuss all of this which await my full joining me live now is

model anderson and i mean people bridges conservative party thank you for joining us here on r.g.p. is it any of her to let fall any you bailout divorce cyprus or has that branch now been burnt. where. the bridge has not been burnt it says march first the european union wants cyprus to continue to be part of the euro so they will have to find the solution i think the solution they are proposing is wrong it is affecting p. . you know have small the poor suits and who are saving for the future lives or when they retire and this is not fear at all i think the eurozone suit should be able to propose another type of solution. british investors have significant amounts of money in cyprus and that's aside from u.k.

military presence how concerned is your government about national interests lee. well i think it's they are very concerned i mean it's not only the military force that has money there but there were other people express through its living in cyprus who have money in the. banks in cyprus there are people who are investing in finance i mean banks in the u.k. are investing in france in cyprus so all those people are very concerned and i think the whole of. the european union membership should be concerned about this because it also establishes a really bad record for future bailouts in different countries i think that spain and greece and italy. will become very warmly and this will could provoke a bank run. are there any lessons that the u.k. can learn from this i mean if there was

a small bailout to choose to cyprus and then that wasn't enough and now it's found its place it's a it's almost at the brink of saying we have no more money with that said we're better corrupt can the u.k. learn from this and is this going to get worse before it gets better. well i think it's going to get worse before it gets better because the european union and the eurozone leaders are not really understanding what is the real problem and the real problem is that there are countries that cannot cope with the euro as their currency that is the real problem i mean us much this european leaders don't understand this problem and don't allow countries like cyprus or greece to leave the euro. then we will continue to have more and more problems that they realize played out a bailout should the euro i slipped out of

a deal that. i think it should because there is no other solution you know you can today they are willing to tax deposits in cyprus what will happen if to morrow this money that they are asking for is not enough they would have to continue taxing further the deposits in cyprus and what will happen when there is not enough money in the banks in cyprus you know when people really take away the reforms from cyprus there will be no money to pay for this so they need to find another solution if they think cyprus should stay in the euro so in my view you know the solution is to realize that countries like cyprus greece and other members cannot cope with the euro arced their currency martha anderson i wish we had more time with you thank you very much for your thoughts on the situation and

this topic that will go on and no doctor for a while really now the architect of bridges age of austerity is the earl of ailing a new budget amid huge pressure to revive the economy now after the public outrage sponsored by the last budget george osborne is expected to do away with more controversial tax hide such as a beer levy in a field to hike now i know that you are watching a live pictures there of a judge also blown actually giving his budget speech or however show you the editor of the tax review magazine says that i not change really. it clearly or approach is proof that you can't dig your way out of a hole by digging downwards i think stereotypes failed and now you need to really be spending money injecting it into the economy investing in. housing projects in infrastructure roads schools i think britain is teetering on the brink of an

historic trip would it recession and i think that's proof that the charges policies are not worked unfortunately i think that this budget is going to be budgeted for continuity not change especially after the massive negative headlines that emerged after last year's so-called only shambles of a budget so i suspect. we will see some encouraging measures such as a further increase to the personal income tax allowance which we should hopefully take up to ten thousand pounds i think that is. a useful measure it will put money back into the pockets of the poorest people of this country and give them more spending money but unfortunately i think that there may well be further reduction in the corporate income tax rate i think this is giving money away to the biggest corporations when there is not money to give away to them. and al qaeda linked group to name to the slab as a state of iraq says it was behind

a series of attacks in baghdad and she's doing they kill sixty five people in mostly shiite areas of the city it was the deadliest violence to hit iraq of this year and came on the tenth anniversary of the u.s. led invasion of the country and despite the cold fusion all the so-called freedom and democracy mission to stability is still nowhere in sight. reports from iraq. almost everyone that we've met here in iraq is deeply scarred and traumatized by war in one way or another whether was lost as under the saddam era or the massive violence and bloodshed that's been unleashed by the u.s. war and subsequent occupation not to mention the sectarian and ethnic lines that that war has opened blood shed is unfortunately the new norm for most of the parts of iraq here where we're standing right now is actually the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan is probably the only area in iraq that has seen life improved since the war in large part due to profits from the oil that's been found in this

region but less than an hour away in the city of kirkuk where we went a completely different picture checkpoint after checkpoint blast wall surrounding the city it was quite dangerous for us to move around without a military escort and most of the residents complained of potentials of security attacks almost at any moment so this is something that's really been reflected across the country and it's quite symbolic of course that on the anniversary of the ten year invasion iraq close that painful chapter much the same way that it began with bombs across baghdad but as for whether the people feel better off or not it really depends on fortunately on their experience their. ethnic affiliations their religion and what they've suffered during the past ten years. the situation in the country is better than we do have a problem there is violence there are lots of explosions everything is ok except the bombing it's. the way things are today suffering.

groups are fracturing this democracy. we would feel free to go out and return safely. but there's no guarantee that i'll come home so as you heard there the one thing that does seem to unite iraqis today is fear fear of when the next explosion or attack may come. the u.s. led offensive champion to the goal of freeing iraqis from saddam hussein's a tyrant and protecting the world from his alleged weapons of mass destruction the dawn was toppled but no w m d's or wherever. takes a look at the troubled legacy of the war. what for the thinking then and what do they think now those are the questions that many people want to ask those in power who made the decision to invade iraq ten years ago r.t. did just that pose in several uncomfortable questions to those who voted to invade the country a decade ago warning their replies may leave you surprised no i don't regret voting

in that way because i think the people of iraq have been freed of course you'll regret any number of people who died but the big question is what were the was the intent of saddam hussein against his own people we had already seen that we had a very repressive regime but what's come in place of saddam's baath history team could hardly be called a better safer life indicative insurgency terror attacks roadside bombs and seemingly endless six terry and violence the effects of the invasion on the iraqi population has been devastating let's look at these numbers over here we're looking at almost five thousand coalition deaths about hundred thirty four thousand of iraq he does but of course those numbers are varying greatly depending on the source and finally you're looking at more than two million displaced people of course not to mention the latest report by the watson institute for international studies at brown university which reckons the war has to date cost the u.s.

more than two trillion dollars some american military officials remain undaunted by the numbers and believe what they did ten years ago actually was a good thing i think it was very necessary for us to do something to help the middle east which would be a degree of freedom that it hadn't had before now a lot of people are going to argue that the iraq invasion did not provide the types of freedom that we had originally envisioned but what what the they're dealing with that was they a regime that didn't allow any freedoms and now depending on where you are in iraq there is at least a sim. once of some freedom unfortunately no map of those places has been provided the latest gallup poll conducted on the eve of the tenth anniversary showed fifty three percent of americans consider the invasion of iraq a mistake the view is shared by at least one man who was among those who ten years ago believed a military operation against saddam hussein was necessary artie's bureau longdon

mets' with lord prescott who in two thousand and three was tony blair's defeat the prime minister it always used to be denied that it was regime change talking about not only was a review but it's now what motivates even russia i think to be god to iran you see these people not talking about intervening but they don't want boots on the ground with they just want. to kill civilians in their lives. so i want the lesson to be learned and we shouldn't repeat it again these countries must develop in all ways as for those iraqis who fought in the war well for them the war is anything but over as they now have to rebuild a country led to the brink of collapse by foreign invaders in the name of ultimate good while those who instigated the carnage seem to show no regrets whatsoever. syria's government and rebels augie using each of launching

a chemical attack near the northern city of aleppo that killed twenty five people and wounded dozens more. that occurred in an area called which is in the notify people in an area that was under the control of the government it contained one of the many station it's called the police center the police training center and this police training center has been under the attack from the position for the last three weeks or more and they were very to control that hardly a just because of the difficulty of the hard fighting from the governor they could not control it and now after that attack the government claims that it's the opposition who fired a mess ali. jane in the morning with chemical guises just comic and guys is late into the killing of several people under one of the several people including some of the doctors who were trying to. to heal these people and in this in close by hospitals the government to claim that the opposition was was responsible for it

and that he and opposition said at the same time that the government is responsible for that it's an exchange of claims between two with a fixation between two parties. coming up on the way into baghdad taxi one of the documentaries state change.

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army is beginning to withdraw from iraq. in december twentieth eleven and after nine years of occupation the last american troops are finally leaving the country. got to know about it i don't know what it meant i deserve the iraqis anger towards the departing invaders who once dreamed of being liberators their departure resembles abandonment and escape despite the optimistic speeches.